Women's Web

Welcome, this site contains stories of Melbourne women and their activism over the last half century. Click Stories to browse by author, Click Actions to browse by campaign/topic and: ...

WOMEN IN BLACK VIGIL Against the Israeli Occupation of Palestine Saturday 4th October 2008 12pm to 1pm GPO Corner of Elizabeth and Bourke street Melbourne Stop the Killing Stop the Occupation !

Colleen Hartland asked that we give moral support to the pro-coice politicians by attending the Legislative Council when the bill to decriminalise abortion is being discussed, from the afternoon of Tuesday 7th.

WOMEN WORKING TOGETHER
suffrage and onwards Using the words of feminists and their enemies, this work tells stories of the Women's Movement in Victoria. Now online http://vicnet.net.au/~women Have a look, let us know what you think of it, where we can improve it, and tell your friends!

Our Annual General Meeting and celebration of the new website will be held at Jimmies Greek Tavern, Johnson Street, Fitzroy on Tuesday 7 October. Please contact me, Geraldine, email or 9486 1808 to book.

NEW on our Dialogue page: Statement from women living under the NT Intervention

Recognition for Women Building Communities from Diann Rodgers-Healey,Australian Virtual Centre for Leadership for Women (CLW) www.leadershipforwomen.com.au

TO DO: ARE YOU A SELF-APPOINTED LEADER? - The Australian virtual Centre for Leadership for Women (CLW) at www.leadershipforwomen.com.au is inviting women who have developed self-initiated projects for the community to nominate themselves for the 2009 national Leadership Achievement Award for Women.

PRO-CHOICE REQUEST - If you can, please respond to this request from Pro-Choice about the Victorian Law Reform Commission’s report on abortion law presently in State parliament. http://prochoicevic.org.au:80/node/4

We sent this: To the Honorable Member, I beg you to allow the women of Victoria to have access to affordable, accessible abortion by removing it altogether, once and for all, from the criminal code.

Abortion is not a crime. It should not be subject to conditions other than those imposed on any medical treatment.

To those opposing the Bill and seeking to weaken it with conditions, we support Senator Zakharov when she wrote directly to the Archbishop of Sydney, the Acting President of the Australian Episcopal Conference in the 1980's:

'I share your concern with the human rights of every human being, but do not accept your definition of 'human being'. I value the rights of women to control their own lives and the right of every child to be wanted and properly nurtured above the rights of a small collection of cells which may be a potential human being but is not, in my view, 'a human being'. ... I regard my 'commitment to justice and human rights' as demonstrably as realistic and strong as any supporter of the so-called 'Right to Life' view.'

BOOK REVIEW by Barbara Hall "I got from this book health matters, pollution matters, geography, history, international politics and a story of life as a feminist politician in Victorian politics....'